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An international group of young, experimental painters founded CoBrA in Paris. The Dutch members, Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant, would then determine the face of post-war Dutch painting for several decades. Appel and Corneille were both looking for a new formal language, separate from pre-war artistic conventions and traditions. In 1947 they spent some time in Paris. Appel became acquainted with Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut, as well as the paintings of the mentally ill he saw at an exhibition in the St. Anne asylum. The spontaneity and primal power that emerged from this work gave him inspiration. Shortly afterwards, the first human-animal beings with large heads and questioning eyes appeared in his work that made the Cobra language so recognizable. Corneille also made abstract work, an interplay of lines and free forms. Together with Constant, Anton Rooskens, Eugène Brands, Theo Wolvecamp and Jan Nieuwenhuis, they founded the Experimental Group in July 1948. Not tradition, but man in his purest and most original capacity, without the ballast of the cultural past, would henceforth be the point of reference. All forms of non-figurative experiment were possible. Young Dutch poets including Lucebert joined. The director of the Stedelijk Museum, Willem Sandberg, was their great promoter.

Constant was the man of international contacts. In 1946 he had met the Danish experimental artist Asger Jorn in Paris, under whose influence he began painting fantasy animals and mythical creatures. Jorn had contacts with Belgian avant-garde painters, including Christian Dotremont. In November 1948 Constant, Appel and Corneille traveled to a conference in Paris with experimental Belgians, Danes, French and Czechs. The aim was to discuss the situation of the avant-garde in these countries. However, the Belgians, Danes and Dutch did not want words but actions. On November 8, they entered into a partnership for cooperation in the Café de l'Hôtel Notre-Dame. For their working community they found the name CoBrA, composed of the initials of the capitals Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam. In the years that followed, there was a feverish collaboration, with the international CoBrA exhibition in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum as the first clear manifesto in 1949. Growing disagreements over fundamental issues caused the group to disintegrate in November 1951.

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Eugène Brands | Landscape, gouache on board, 30.8 x 28.3 cm, signed l.l. and dated '73

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Landscape, 1973

Eugène Brands | Landschap met wolkenlucht (Landscape with cloudy sky), gouache on paper, 67.4 x 91.0 cm, signed on the reverse and dated on the reverse 16.I.1971

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Landschap met wolkenlucht (Landscape with cloudy sky), 1971

Eugène Brands | Composition, gouache on paper, 22.1 x 20.7 cm, signed l.r.

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Composition

Eugène Brands | Chimney, gouache on paper, 49.5 x 37.2 cm, signed l.l. with initials

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Chimney

Eugène Brands | The mother-of-pearl box, gouache on paper, 26.7 x 34.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated 10.53

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

The mother-of-pearl box, 1953

Karel Appel | Untitled, lithograph on paper, 22.2 x 41.3 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '59 (in pencil)

Karel Appel

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Untitled, 1959

Eugène Brands | Tuin in de zomer (Garden in summer), oil on paper, 50.4 x 54.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1961

Eugène Brands

painting • for sale

Tuin in de zomer (Garden in summer), 1961

Corneille | Woman, cat and birds, lithograph on paper, 45.0 x 33.0 cm, signed l.r. (in potlood) and dated '95 (in potlood)

Corneille

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Woman, cat and birds, 1995

Eugène Brands | Composition II, gouache on board, 42.0 x 51.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated 27/1/49-A

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Composition II, 1949

Karel Appel | A beast drawn man, lithograph on paper, 50.0 x 40.0 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '61 (in pencil)

Karel Appel

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A beast drawn man

Karel Appel | Composition, lithograph, 38.9 x 49.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated '60

Karel Appel

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Composition, 1960

Corneille | Le Chemin d'un Philosophe, watercolour and gouache on newspaper, 34.2 x 22.1 cm, signed u.l. and dated '47

Corneille

painting • for sale

Le Chemin d'un Philosophe, 1947

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.1 x 49.7 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition, 1973

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition, 1973

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition, 1973

Constant | Yellow Man, gouache on paper, 34.0 x 44.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '49

Constant

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Yellow Man, 1949

Lucebert | Untitled, watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 33.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated '77 II

Lucebert

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Untitled, 1977

Lucebert | Three Brothers, oil on canvas, 114.3 x 145.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated '83

Lucebert

painting • for sale

Three Brothers, 1983

Constant | IJhorst table, metal and glass, 46.4 x 65.0 cm, signed on the frame and dated 1953

Constant

painting • for sale

IJhorst table, 1953

Eugène Brands | Rijzende zon (Rising sun), gouache on paper, 43.0 x 44.8 cm, signed l.r. with initials and dated on the reverse 1985

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Rijzende zon (Rising sun), 1985

Lucebert | Untitled, graphite and watercolor on paper, 32.2 x 23.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated 91.VI.12

Lucebert

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Untitled, 1991

Eugène Brands | Toren in landschap (Tower in landscape), oil on paper, 21.5 x 22.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 5.56

Eugène Brands

painting • for sale

Toren in landschap (Tower in landscape), 1956

Lucebert | Die Wahlverwandtschaften, oil on canvas, 90.2 x 70.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '90

Lucebert

painting • for sale

Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1990

Eugène Brands | Mysterious Universe, oil on canvas, 55.0 x 70.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '71 on the reverse

Eugène Brands

painting • for sale

Mysterious Universe, 1971

Lucebert | Three creatures, four eyes, pencil, chalk, watercolour and oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated '89

Lucebert

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Three creatures, four eyes, 1989

Eugène Brands | Attack the darkness of the universe, gouache on board, 40.0 x 49.3 cm, signed on the reverse and dated 7 VIII 1998

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Attack the darkness of the universe, 1998

Lucebert | Omar Kayam, acrylic on paper, 67.0 x 108.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated '70

Lucebert

painting • for sale

Omar Kayam, 1970

Lucebert | Three Figures, oil on canvas, 80.2 x 100.3 cm, signed l.l. and dated '62 and on the reverse 62/11

Lucebert

painting • for sale

Three Figures, 1962


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